Offensive anti-Hillary GOP convention buttons create waves on Twitter

Over the weekend, we posted a quick photo of some of the merchandise on sale at the state GOP convention in Anaheim — which included anti-Hillary buttons that compared the former Secretary of State to a hen.

And really took a slam at her.

Boy, did social media go wild.

From the start, the reactions poured in about the buttons message: “Classy!” “Misogynistic” and #bodyshaming, wrote some.
But GOP officials at the convention, like Micah Grant and communications director Mark Standriff, were upset and immediately sought us out after the post. Both said the buttons didn’t reflect at all the message of the California Republicans — who last weekend highlighted their outreach to women.

Within an hour, the buttons which had been sold outside a VIP reception were gone from display. But the reaction hasn’t stopped — almost 300 retweets of the message to date, overwhelmingly negative — even from Republicans who were shocked.